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12:00 AM
I haven't had one in so long
used to get them at Charlie Riedel's
I didn't know that white hots were a regional thing either for a long time
 
I think Nicks has trademarked garbage plate and started suing other places over it now :(
 
oh man, really? :(
ugh now I want white hots and buffalo wings T_T
 
'swhat I heard, may not be true.
but yeah :(
And Me too. Also good pizza.
(I am still in Seattle. For someone not terribly fond of seafood it is something of a wasteland.)
 
there's a chain here in the NL called New York Pizza actually
and they claimed they had buffalo wings
I was like "Riiight" I got them and oh god, the disappointment
 
@FallenAngelEyes It is almost assuredly terrible, just like every other 'new york pizza' place on the planet.
 
12:03 AM
@LessPop_MoreFizz They have hilarious commercials though
like this one
 
Protip: When dealing with any 'new york pizza' place, ask them what kind of water they use in their dough. If they look at you sideways, it's probably terrible.
 
another in the same series:
I enjoy living in a country without the FCC
these commercials show in primetime, no censorship XD
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz ...the fuck..
 
What to do, what to do. Do I... game? program? Do homework?
 
12:07 AM
@FallenAngelEyes MEESTAHR GOOOOOOSE.
@Powerlord Drink.
 
Eat New York Pizza?
 
And now that I am pining for food that is only available across the ocean, I think I shall sleep. G'night all!
 
@Powerlord Alternately, taunt @fallen and make yourself a Garbage Plate. It's 'The Fattiest Dish in America.'
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz T_T
zonk
 
(203 grams of fat estimated, to be precise.)
 
12:16 AM
I will never understand why you can't add a Killing Floor server to Steam by its server port (7707) and instead have to add its 28852 port
which doesn't work in game, and the two are not synced.
 
@FallenAngelEyes Next time I head up to Rochester, I'll gladly get a garbage plate and ship it to you. I can't imagine it would fare well, though
 
@DaveMcClelland I'd imagine a package of white hots could ship well if packed properly?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Probably, but that's what I'm offering. I'm offering to go to Nick Tahou's, get a garbage plate, put craploads of tape on it, and ship it across the Atlantic
And by the time it gets there, it would already be mixed up! Honestly, it's the best possible outcome
 
@FallenAngelEyes I assume that's how the netherlands views new york?
 
And now, with all this talk of buffalo wings, I make my special bachelor chicken nugget recipe
 
12:25 AM
@DaveMcClelland buffalos don't have wings
 
@Wipqozn For all I care, I'd eat buffalo testicles if they were as delicious as the wings
 
Oh yeah, I dunno if I mentioned it before, but I put TF2 Prop Hunt back on OCReMix RED (red.ocrtf2.com:27015)
 
You haven't lived until you've actually eaten wings in the city of Buffalo. My coworker and I drove 6 hours each way just so he could go through the experience
 
@DaveMcClelland I'm just going to paraphrase that as you want to eat a buffalo's testicles
2
 
Well who wouldn't?
 
12:27 AM
0
Q: How to play the WoW trailers?

Ian BoydWorld of Warcraft: Cataclysm removed the original trailer videos from the \Data\Interface\Cinematics and replaced them with a single \Data\Interface\Cinematics\WoW3X_Intro_1280.avi How do i play this video file1? The video is 1280x720, compressed with PMVX ({30355844-0000-0010-8000-00AA00...

 
@DaveMcClelland Also, "the greatest computer science alive."
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Indeed. That was also mentioned in the relevant reddit thread
Which I have now closed and am too lazy to find
Bachelor chow's done. Later everybody
 
@Powerlord Wouldn't prop hunt be really easy for anyone who knows the maps well?
Like you for example
 
1:32 AM
I hate TF2.
 
Ello, blokes
Hm.
I think someone tried to close their own question by editing the title to include "(closed)".
 
1:48 AM
@RavenDreamer If you are back so soon, I suppose studying was rather pedestrian?
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz No studying was done. We spent the time talking, discovering we share a love of Reddit and watching Funny Cat Videos.
Mind, this is like, the second time I've had a meaningful conversation with the girl, so...
 
Hahaha, the dude who owns @Qwikster wants to sell his account to Netflix.
for 6 figures +
 
Ha, is that a real thing? All I saw was The Oatmeal's comic on it.
 
Yeah, it's real.
They're spinning off the DVD business into a new seperate brand.
(Which, among other things, is going to branch out into video game rentals.)
 
10:00.
No mo' intanet.
 
1:59 AM
Do you know where your children are?
 
pauses to contemplate the potential gnome children of @GnomeSlice.
 
2:25 AM
@RavenDreamer shudder
 
@Wipqozn Most maps for Prop Hunt are special, extremely prop-heavy maps.
For example, my server's default map is ph_warehouse, which is a gigantic warehouse with props on several floors (and an outside area).
Well, OK, maybe not gigantic, but there are a lot of areas to disguise, plus you can likely find props that look like the one you're disguised as.
Someone downvoted my Prop Hunt suggestion? :/
 
2:43 AM
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Q: Measuring individual player effectiveness in 2-player per team sports

Bill WatersonI've got a spreadsheet of some team scores. First team to 10 points wins. There are 2 players on each team. The players play with different teammates all the time, although they are not chosen perfectly randomly. No individual scores are kept. So basically we have Bill and Bob beat Andy and Alic...

 
Food I ordered is now at 1 hour since I ordered it. From here on out, the tip drops by another 10 cents per minute.
 
3:06 AM
No, "if it's 30 min late, it's free"?
 
@RavenDreamer Most places haven't done that stuff in decades.
My usual rule of thumb is 30 minutes is good, 45 is acceptable, 60 is I don't blame the delivery guy for the kitchens fuckups, and past one hour, it can't be the kitchens fault anymore.
 
@LessPop_MoreFizz Could still be the kitchen :)
 
@MarcoCeppi It becomes excessively unlikely past a certain point.
 
Being a delivery man at one point, I took the magical triangle on the top of my car as a licence to speed as fast as I could. 25MPH? Screw that more like 65MPH
Slow moving car? That's what shoulders are for.
No shoulders? Make one.
 
That sounds like it would end badly.
 
3:19 AM
Well I'm still here. Luckily I don't have that job anymore
 
Wow indeed!
 
Ohmy.
 
love things
 
I'm not really sure how to feel after reading that. I feel kind of ill.
I'm going to go finish up this proof BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH
 
3:39 AM
That had better be applejuice.
 
Please be applejuice please be applejuice oh god oh god oh god oh man oh god oh god oh man oh god oh god okay hahaahahaha okay playtime is over
PLEASE BE APPLEJUICE
 
It's mustard.
 
It's melted butter.
 
melted man butter.
leaves
 
melted mana butter.
 
3:55 AM
0
Q: What rewards do you get for playing an Ultimate Team game in Madden 12?

Dave DuPlantisI'm not great at Madden (I play on All-Pro with decent teams, struggle against humans but can beat the CPU pretty regularly), and even with the returning-veteran bonus I got from playing MUT in Madden 10, I don't have a lot of coins. I'm trying to save up for a decent pack (to boost my team enoug...

 
 
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4:56 AM
On an unrelated topic, I wonder how many TF2 achievements Mana has. Also, bed time.
 
5:35 AM
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@badp This breaks my heart.
 
@GnomeSlice "why is X borked" isn't a very helpful bug report
in particular since X works just fine for me
 
Everyone likes X!
 
5:53 AM
@balpha I linked it to you because I tried it in Chrome and it got me to a lolcat page
There's no error trace in the HTML comments or I would've added that too
That said I currently no longer have a web browser without local storage so I really can't test it
 
it also works with non-broken browsers :)
 
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I just tried again and got to chat.stackexchange.com/login/global-fallback which lolcatted.
 
sorry, but I don't have anything in the error logs; neither on chat nore on core (it's not quite obvious to me whether you saw this before or after clicking the button)
 
After.
 
5:56 AM
yes, now it was clear to me :)
 
It might very well be that I'm trying to do so with an unregistered account without the required rep
let's try with my main
yeah, that worked
you'll have to ask Gnome then. :/
bbl breakfast
 
what user is that?
the low-rep one
 
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Q: How to play Crysis 2 in Third Person mode

LifeH2OIn saves directory of Crysis 2 is saw a file name actionmaps.xml which says <action name="flymode" onPress="1" noModifiers="1"> <key name="f3"/> </action> <action name="godmode" onPress="1" noModifiers="1"> <key name="f4"/> </action> <actio...

 
@user12596 Y U WEIRD???
 
6:05 AM
I know! A returning unregistered user? I smell something fishy here.
 
okay, he exists on chat.se now, after the super ping
(he didn't before)
does it work now?
 
Nope.
(...still 404, which I assume is an error in disguise)
 
oh, 404?
didn't you say lolcat?
12 mins ago, by badp
I just tried again and got to http://chat.stackexchange.com/login/global-fallback which lolcatted.
 
eh. I meant "funny picture when things go wrong"
each site has its own and they're not all lolcats.
You might want to fix that! :P
 
maaaaaaybee....
 
6:09 AM
I'm sure we can sneak a lolcat in the Pong killscreen too.
 
anyway, 404 is something different -- in this very case, that probably means a rejected global auth attempt
are you maybe testing this in porn mode with referrer stripping?
 
um... yes, but it worked with my main account
fires up Opera anyway
yep. Still 404 without porn mode
I'm sorry about the 'lolcat' thing. Totally PEBKAC
 
can you email me you page source of gaming.stackexchange.com/users/chat-stackexchange-login? ben@stackexchange.com
you might not want to put that here...
 
Done
 
thanks
hmm
that looks fine
oh, by the way -- gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12596/user12596 isn't unregistered
 
6:31 AM
ooooh, the inbox notification fade in thing is shiny.
Let's see perhaps if I can get 20 rep
 
I think I found the issue
 
6:54 AM
woo, I broke 1k views
Goes claim his hat
btw @Powerlord how did the medic uncrating go?
 
@badp try now
 
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Q: What is the quickest way to destroy a mob spawner?

DanieLSpecifically, the cave spider mob spawner. Also, can the cave spider mob spawner spawn cave spiders even if there is light?

 
@user12596 would wave, but he can't. Thanks @balpha.
 
Cool. I owe Jarrod a beer now for fixing that.
 
@GnomeSlice see if you still have trouble please
Now to kill user12596 with fire
 
7:45 AM
Argh, was supposed to have an appointment today and they called this morning because the person was sick and they can't reschedule til Oct. 11th
 
8:19 AM
hello everyone
 
8:30 AM
hi @formicin
 
No, Windows. I didn't want to name this file 'hotrod.bmp.png'
 
do you guys know any game like this: startup game like farmville
 
Ah, you're the one who asked on the site
What particular characteristics are you looking for?
And are you looking for a FB game specifically, a browser game, or a retail type title?
 
8:50 AM
0
Q: Can I use vermin in my egg production farm?

jaminjaI recently acquired a tame blue jay in a cage that I bought from the Elven trading caravan. I have a reasonable egg production farm up and running with domestic egg laying creatures, like ducks and turkeys, and I was wondering if I would be able to add to this with my recent acquisition. I noti...

 
9:01 AM
my new spray
 
9:24 AM
Hey all, any chance of some more input to the edited blog review meta post thing? It just feels like the blog isn't going anywhere and, well, more input on the topic would be handy before I start to give up on it
 
@DMA57361 Get Lum the Mad to write for the blog? :D A bit more seriously, I tried a bit of blog writing, but between work, family, programming some small personal games and leading a clan in a PvP game, I just don't really have that much time for it. Or rather, not enough dedication to shave off yet another hour off my way too short sleep schedule. :)
I imagine most people have similar problems. :)
Playing (or developing) games is fun for most; writing about them not so much.
 
@DMA57361 Well I did pump some traffic through yesterday :)
 
@badp yeah, which is great, but it never sticks. The SU blog is much the same. It's daily traffic is "higher", but focused on a few oldish posts that happen to still be relevant
 
Yeah, I'd be surprised if it sticked.
The only problem I perceive with the blog is one of quality, some posts are... worse than others
like the "switch and bait" post about Dead Islan err I mean, worst games ever
 
@FallenAngelEyes a tech startup type
 
9:35 AM
@badp yeah, that's probably not easy to fix without more contributors thou
 
@FallenAngelEyes farmville like fun managing game
 
I don't know. I'm just become a little disillusioned with the whole thing... which is an problem because I've been the one to press "schedule" or "publish" on almost every post for over a month now
and it doesn't feel like we've anyone else who's really all that bothered either :/
 
@DMA57361 Yeah, I'm kind of bummed by the (lack of) feedback on the post you made :/
 
@FallenAngelEyes feedback is fairly low on every post - but badp's got 1000's of views and got... 9? comments. So I guess we shouldn't expect too much there
 
@DMA57361 I meant the meta post
 
9:38 AM
@FallenAngelEyes ah, yeah, that was rather disappointing
 
@formicin Have you tried other Zynga games?
Cityville and Empires & Allies have the same kind of gameplay, though E&A has more combat
 
@FallenAngelEyes yes, i've tried them before. i need something that promotes tech entrepreneurship
 
@DMA57361 Got plenty of comments on reddit. Perhaps we should submit more there
tbh blog comments are meh
 
@badp that just doesn't feel like the blog is working to me. Yeah, it's a great post that was of interest to the TF2 crowd... but... none of them care about the blog - you could have posted it almost anywhere with a similar result.
 
@DMA57361 Meh. The blog isn't an end to itself
it's just our soapbox
if somebody's interested in what we have to say, great, otherwise, eh. Our goal here is not to get thousands of visits on the blog.
 
9:51 AM
@formicin Can you explain a little more what you mean by "tech entrepreneurship" and what specific gameplay elements you are looking for?
As in, why didn't Cityville and E&A work for you?
 
@badp possibly, I suppose, then that reduces us to occasional targeted posts
 
I don't think the situation, tbh, is any different with other SE blogs
even the company one
people don't go to Stack Overflow for its blog
 
the company one has a specific purpose thou
All this is why I asked the meta question. I don't really know what we should be doing and padding with whatever content we've got available doesn't seem to have really been doing much
 
After 50 hours as spy I finally got the 'stab an engie and sap three buildings in 10 seconds' achievement
 
10:11 AM
0
Q: CraftBukkit and slime spawn chunks?

Lasse V. KarlsenDoes CraftBukkit change the default formula for which chunks can spawn slimes? After installing CraftBukkit, I have not seen a single slime in my slime farm, and before I installed CraftBukkit, I could regularly visit it to pick up slimeballs.

 
10:36 AM
LOL
Berlusconi's blaming Italy's rating change on the media
Why do they just have to keep reporting news?
 
@badp Isn't Berlusconi the media in Italy? So he's basically blaming ... himself.
Though he probably means "the small fishes I didn't buy out yet."
 
@MartinSojka Oh apparently the first national channel defended him for 30 minutes straight
"His opponents are using his private life to attack his public function! How rude!"
 
(... thinking "... those bastards, only I should be allowed to do that!")
 
10:53 AM
@badp good job
 
 
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1:35 PM
What?
It's just a bit of noise on the height map
 
That's cute, the time and activity reporting system for the state unsubmitted my time and deleted my activity completely.
If I wasn't on the never-ending project, that would be inconvenient.
Still, now I have management on my back because it wasn't done.
 
I just realized that the Detonator only does mini-crits to burning targets and not just crits.
NOw the weapon makes a lot more sense, since before I never understand why you would use the flare gun over it.
 
@Wipqozn Yup, that's why I use the Flare Gun.
 
@Powerlord yeah, I'm going to be switching back to it myself.
I rarely use the alternate fire, since there are very few situations in which it is useful.
 
Flare Gun is 90ish damage crits, Detonator is 45ish mini-crits.
You can do flare jumps with it, but that was really nerfed since Beta.
Then again, the crit to mini-crit change was also a nerf since Beta.
 
1:41 PM
@Powerlord Yeah, the self damage output doesn't out weigh the benefit in my opinion.
 
Pyro doesn't eat ? >:O
 
@Powerlord pfft, who eats bacon? Crazy people, that's who.
 
I use detonation all the time
I can't aim for shit with the regular flare gun
 
@Wipqozn ...have you seen the Pyro's hats? You are aware that, in game universe terms, the Pyro is crazy?
 
Can someone tell me if this QR code works?
 
1:45 PM
I'm a pretty good shot with the Flare Gun, which is part of the reason I rarely detonate.
 
Powerlord, is this spray correct? I've done some testing with thirdperson but...
5 hours ago, by badp
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@Powerlord Good point.
 
@badp No idea.
 
Apparently equipping the sapper makes the hotrod go down
 
1:46 PM
@RonanForman That's going to be tough to read
 
That's why I'm asking.
Unfortunately I don't have a smart phone, so I can't check myself.
 
My mobile can't read it
 
@RonanForman nor I, or I would help you.
 
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Q: How do I Know if I'm Dead?

GnomeSliceI've been playing Die2Nite for 3 days now, and still have basically no idea where to find many of the game's various notifications and alerts. So, following this trend, how will I know when I'm dead? Where will this be listed? I haven't got much longer to live, and would like to know where to ...

That's what's linked in there.
 
So, it sounds like talks between Larry Page and Larry Ellison didn't go over so well yesterday and they get to go back for another talk tomorrow.
 
1:50 PM
That's right, but 1/3 success isn't good enough
 
For the record, submitting a black-and-white version to zxing.org/w/decode.jspx worked fine. This one, to be specific:
 
@MartinSojka Then why are you trying to do a colored version? :P
With scanlines, no less.
 
@Powerlord I am?
 
@MartinSojka Oh whoops, I thought Ronan said that.
 
Yep, obviously the good ole boring b&w version worked...
FYI it links to 'how do I know if I'm dead'
 
1:54 PM
That's around the size, obviously I'll move it.
 
@RonanForman oh okay, now I get it. IT is for your poster, et cetsr
It looks good btw, nice job @RonanForman
Does this mean @GnomeSlice will be famous now?
 
@badp Unsurprisingly, most QR code readers expect black codes on white background. Anything else, and they can't cope.
Or at least dark on light ...
 
It is kinda surprising that something that only works in b&w doesn't preemptively make the image b&w in the first place
 
@Wipqozn Not as much as this guyhttp://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/4999/how-can-i-tell-if-a-corpse-is-safe-to-eat
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Q: How can I tell if a corpse is safe to eat?

Kaestur HakarlI am playing a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse? I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is e...

 
@RonanForman Can't you triple the QR code in size?
 
1:57 PM
The whole poster?
@badp Then there wouldn't be room for the picture.
 
Otherwise reduce the glowing and put it to the side of the 'GAMING' text (which ought to be in bold) and... er... fill it in.
 
Heck, even removing the scanlines could make them read it correctly. It's hard to say without testing.
GLaDOS loves testing, we should ask her to do it.
Oh wait, she likes making people do tests, not doing the tests herself.
 
@RonanForman this iteration of the QR code worked
 
@badp It wouldn't help - the readers are checking for the three black orientation squares in the corners, and then for the smaller calibration ones. If those squares are white after turning the image into a B&W one, they won't find them.
 
@Powerlord We could get her to boss someone else around to do the tests for us
 
1:58 PM
yeah, you don't want to let the scanlines bleed through the code
 
The scan lines make not difference, the background to the actual code is fully opaque
 
That's what I meant. The scanlines can't be seen through the opaque background
that apparently made a world of difference
 
And the black pixels are now darker, the white pixels haven't changed though
 
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Q: "Minecraft Offline.bat" With HD texture pack Fix?

GarbleThis is great: @SET /P IGN=IGN= @java -Xms512m -Xmx1024 -cp "%APPDATA%/.minecraft/bin/*" -Djava.library.path="%APPDATA%/.minecraft/bin/natives" net.minecraft.client.Minecraft %IGN% But if your trying to use any HD texture pack you will get the "unpatched bug" ie small lava and portal texture...

 
Can you work out what pixels aren't needed, I wan't to add a heart in there...
 
2:02 PM
@RonanForman Anything besides the three big squares is fair game. It mostly depends on how much you replace (and with what settings you made the code), not where.
 
Cool!
 
@FallenAngelEyes i'm looking for something like game dev story. you create a tech startup there.
 
@RonanForman I'll have a look for you.
 
Bottom-line, make sure the QR code is generated with as much error-correction as possible.
And don't cover the boxes.
 
2:13 PM
I still have no idea what a QR code is for.
Well, no, I kinda do, I just don't see the point.
 
@Powerlord smartphones
They scan them, and it takes them to a site
 
@Powerlord Speed of input, really
It's not so much for browsing while on the medium as it is for when it isn't on the medium
I would call it one form of logical extension to copying a URL from a piece of paper.
 
> Instead of "Hello, world," I think Aleš should have acknowledged that the programming landscape have changed, and the standard first application to write for a new platform is now a fart app. Wouldn't that have been an awesome app to have written on stage at the keynote?
-- Raymond Chen (Microsoft employee)
 
This works on my phone at least.
 
@ArdaXi <3
 
2:24 PM
Should point to the Gaming homepage.
 
That is really cool!
And now back to paying attention in class.
 
I could make a much better one, but I had to improvise.
 
This is mine.
 
Needs more PacMan.
 
@RonanForman A bit small though.
 
2:26 PM
I seem to be using a higher resolution type...
 
I mean the heart, in contrast to the code.
What settings did you generate that code with?
 
Hmm, if you want to put a logo in there, you'll want a more advanced creator.
Something like https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=545&cht=qr&chl=<linkhere>&choe=UTF-8&chld=h|1
That way you can cover about 30% of the code.
 
hmm
 
2:30 PM
should I put my real name or my username on my Mod Business Card? I'm trying to figure out what the use case is.
 
@Mana Duh, my username is my real name.
 
@Mana I'd say real name.
 
@Mana What's a "Mod Business Card"?
 
Alright
@Martin Stuff
 
I still think we shouldn't restrict these to moderators.
 
2:33 PM
You can get them if you plan on attending an event, etc
 
@Mana Oh. I didn't realise this place has mods (outside of official employees) ...
 
Yup, I am a mod.
 
Better?
 
It scans properly, but can't you put the heart more in the middle?
 
@ArdaXi Here
 
2:40 PM
@Powerlord Exactly.
 
What's the best way to upload a photoshop file?
 
@Powerlord (You do know the anatomical position of the heart in the human body is in the middle, not on the left, right?)
@RonanForman Simple filehost like AnyHub I guess.
 
I don't understand the MyLittlePony thing.
I just don't get it.
 
@RonanForman You have a strange definition of black.
 
2:46 PM
That's why the 's are there.
 
So I'm guessing that layer is supposed to be on color blending?
Err, your PSD doesn't work for me.
Either that 'black' colour layer is supposed to be less opaque
or it's supposed to blend differently.
Got it, 50% opacity.
Something like this?
 
PSDs are evil. Use TIFFs for image exchange (with all the layers intact), PSB if you just want to save in the "native" Photoshop format (but don't use this for image interchange, it isn't meant for that).
 
No, remove the white from your QR code and the 'black' layer only shows opaque pixels
 
Ah.
 
also if the pixels are 12 big it works best
That's the size the generator I used was.
 
2:54 PM
 
@MartinSojka Does it support layers?
 
@RonanForman Yes, with all the effects (though not every app can re-import them with them).
 
@RonanForman PSDs are fine.
 

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